Citizens Cemetery

Citizens Cemetery was founded in early June 1864 with the burial of Colorado legislature Joel Woods. Established on public land east of Prescott and southwest of Fort Whipple, the cemetery has been known at various times as “Town Cemetery”, “City ...

Abel Kolb's Murder / Welsh Neck Cemetery

Marker Front:

Colonel Abel Kolb was a prominent Revolutionary War Patriot of this area. A band of Tory raiders, on the night of April 27-28, 1781, surrounded the home of Colonel Kolb and his family. He was shot while surrendering himself ...

Finn’s Point National Cemetery

This cemetery contains

the graves of 2,436 Confederate

soldiers who died while pisoners

of war at Fort Delaware.

Marker is on Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Swearingen Cemetery

Victims of the last Indian murder in Beaver County are buried here. Samuel Swearingen settled here in 1785 and in 1790 near this site his only daughter Mary, wife of Jacob Colvin, and her infant child were scalped and killed. ...

Fairview Cemetery

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Fairview

Cemetery

City of New Britain

First Burial 1756 This

Memorial Gateway

Erected In 1936

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In Memory Of

Charles Smith

Landers

1846 1900

"For the trumpet shall

sound and the

dead shall be raised

incorruptible"

The Gift of His Wife

Grace Judd Landers

Marker is at the intersection of Smalley ...

Finn’s Point National Cemetery

This cemetery contains

the graves of 2,436 Confederate

soldiers who died while pisoners

of war at Fort Delaware.

Marker is on Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Athens Cemetery

After citizens petitioned for its closure, an unofficial burial ground in this area (large lot 13) closed in 1857. That same year, local residents buried prominent planter, Mason and school superintendent William J. Brantley here on one acre donated by ...

Homer Cemetery

In 1854 W.W. Manning established a drugstore and sawmill in this area, and named the community after his former home in Homer, Louisiana. In 1856 Homer was chosen as Angelina County seat, following a mandate from the Texas Legislature to ...

Ball’s Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1984

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from Ball’s Bluff Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ball’s Bluff National Cemetery

The twenty-five graves here in one of America’s smallest national cemeteries contain the partial remains of 54 Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861. All are unidentified except Pvt. James Allen of Northbridge, Massachusetts, who ...